PILLBOX LISTS

an index of recurring themes...

ANIMALS CATS

ALL CATS ARE GREY: "In the caves, all cats are grey..."
FOREVER: "she was a cat..."
LET'S GO TO BED:    "Fires outside in the sky look as perfect as cats..."
THE DREAM:      "Dizzy as I speak like a tumbling cat..."
THE LOVECATS:    "We move like cagey tigers;" "We missed you, hissed the lovecats..."
GIVE ME IT:         "Slit the cats like cheese..."
ONE HUNDRED YEARS: "A sound like a tiger thrashing in the water..."
HIGH:               "When I see you kitten as a cat..."

BIRDS
THE DROWNING MAN: "And one by one the bright birds leave her..."
A SHORT TERM EFFECT:"Just like a falling bird..."
BIRDMAD GIRL:       "As black as stone and mad as birds..."
WAILING WALL: "A vulture at the wailing wall..."
GIVE ME IT:         "Sing birds sing birds sing birds sing..."
THE EMPTY WORLD:    "with eyes like poisoned birds..."
HAROLD AND JOE:     "sing, birds, sing..."
MINT CAR:           "birds sing, we swing..."
BURN:               "tousled bird mad girl;" "dream the crow black dream..."
WRONG NUMBER:       "for a not-so-early bird, it's the only way..."
WHERE THE BIRDS ALWAYS SING: "where the sun always shines, and the birds always sing..."

PIGS
ONE HUNDRED YEARS: "Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs..."
GIVE ME IT: "Like the pig on the stairs hanging in a groovy purple shirt..."
PIGGY IN THE MIRROR:"Look at the piggy, piggy in the mirror..."

DOGS
SHAKE DOG SHAKE:    "As stale and selfish as a sick dog;" "Shake dog shake;" "and breathed like sick dogs;" "and dreamed of sick dogs..."
ALL I WANT:       "All I want is to hold you like a dog..."
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT:  "Don't howl like a dog..."
BABBLE:             "Like dog-head-monkey-music me..."
GONE:               "Sick as a dog and six times as mean..."

INSECTS
THE FIGUREHEAD:     "Freshly squashed fly;" "The figurines tighten with spiders inside them..."
THE CATERPILLAR:   "Cata...caterpillar girl..."
SHIVER AND SHAKE:   "You're just a slug on the floor..."
LULLABY:            "On candystripe legs, the spiderman comes;" "softer than shadow and quicker than flies..."
THE 13TH:           "A-buzz a-buzz a-buzzing like them killer bees..."
STRANGE ATTRACTION: "a tiny book of butterflies..."
TRAP:               "Drowning like a fly in my drink..."
WRONG NUMBER:       "It's the only way for her to get the worm..."

THE ANIMALS
THE HANGING GARDEN: "In the heat of the night, the animals scream;" "cover my face as the animals cry (die)..."
FOREVER: "And pull the animals just out of the womb..."
SHAKE DOG SHAKE:    "spurning sex like an animal of God..."
ALL I WANT:         "tonight I'm feeling (screaming) like an animal..."
OPEN:               "And I'm starting to laugh like an animal in pain..."
BURN:               "scream the animal scream..."

MISC.
FOREVER: "Seeing the cow dead before he was born..."
THE DREAM:          "I watch in fascination like a vampire bat..."
THE LOVECATS:       "Not broken in pieces like hated little meeces..."
BIRDMAD GIRL:       "Oh I should feel like (could be, should be) a polar bear..."
BANANAFISHBONES:    "A palace of stones of your bananafish bones..."
TORTURE:            "hanging like this, like a vampire bat..."
THE SNAKEPIT:       "and I'm writhing in the snakepit..."
A JAPANESE DREAM:   "burning like a monkey..."
BABBLE:             "Like dog-head-monkey-music me..."
OUT OF MIND:        "And I keep on seeing imaginary lemurs in the street;" "and I feel like a laboratory rat inside a maze..."
THE 13TH:           "And she slides towards me smooth as a snake..."
CLUB AMERICA:       "I ride into your town on a big black trojan horse..."
WRONG NUMBER:       "the sickly sweet (deep dark) colours of the snakes I'm seeing (I hold)"

Christmas/Snow                   Water                   Animals                         Colours
Mirrors                             Telling Time                 Fire                              Blood
Moon                                   Heavenly             Places <--NEW!

Lists were compiled by perusing the lyrics on the Cure's Official Web Site. and the archive at Curiosity - The Cure Anomalies.

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